Can placebo effect save your life?

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Hideaki Tani. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2023 Dec.

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. 2023 Dec;77(12):629.

doi: 10.1111/pcn.13600.

¹ Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

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Placebo effects on all-cause mortality of patients with COVID-19 in randomized controlled trials of interleukin 6 antagonists: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.
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